Developer Donations Buying Favours and Influence

ASF CONSORTIUM AND ASF GROUP THROWING TENS OF THOUSANDS INTO LNP CAMPAIGN WAR CHEST! But what do they want for their investment?

The LNP Candidate for Broadwater finally revealed his true colours this week, by coming out and declaring his blind support for a Cruise Ship Terminal (CST) to be built on the Gold Coast.

David Crisafulli's support (this late in his campaign and after refusing to clearly answer repeated requests for his stance from SOSA earlier this week) smacks of arrogance and pure contempt for the residents of the Gold Coast. Surely the former Minister for Local Government under Campbell Newman and the man who designed the disclosure laws that allows every Mayor in the state to lie about how they spend public money, would have at least a basic understanding of the widely known significant scientific environmental, social and economic reasons that a CST cannot be built on the Gold Coast? Evidently not.

When you start to understand where the money is coming from, maybe you can understand where he is coming from. As SOSA reported earlier this week, the cashed up "Fadden Forum" slush fund is potentially propping up both the LNP Candidate for Broadwater and the LNP Candidate for Bonney at this election. What SOSA has discovered is that ASF appears to also be in the mix. In fact, research shows that ASF contributed over $59,000 directly into the coffers of the LNP in 2016 and 2017. Donations or more like sponsorships?

Yes that's right, ASF, the penny-share shelf company that barely floats along with its nose above the financial waterline, the brokers with links to the Chinese Government who were booted out of Queensland by the Palaszczuk Government after failing to get both their Broadwater Marine Project and their Casino development off the ground, have been quietly contributing to the LNP - to this election campaign here on the Gold Coast!

Why would ASF be bankrolling the LNP on the Gold Coast, unless of course someone in the LNP had told them that if the LNP is elected, then the CST/Casino option is back on the table?

In life, you don't get something for nothing right, so what do you think ASF is going to want in return for all this cash they have been throwing at the LNP? Offshore cruise terminal land at Philip Park for Tom Tate and some subsidising developments? A rehashed proposal for a Broadwater casino and cruise terminal development? What about a casino development on the Transit Centre and Bruce Bishop Car Park site next to Tate's own property?

At least now we know why the LNP candidates on the Gold Coast have so many more signs, more volunteers and more paid/sponsored social media posts than all other candidates.

Who knows who this lot are truly working for and whether a vote for the LNP One Nation Party is actually a vote for ASF Consortium.